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propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?</em></span></p>
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little fancy of my wife’s, and ladies</em></span> fancies, you know, madam,
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ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won’t cut your
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opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.</em></span> She struck a gong
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when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it
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address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have
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belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which
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my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however,
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your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has
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about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt
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we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a
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telegram would bring me down to your help."</p>
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anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire
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sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester
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to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both
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the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond
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my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat
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abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his
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hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried
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impatiently. "I can’t make bricks without clay." And yet he would
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test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came
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<p>"Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday
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to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit’s end. HUNTER."</p>
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analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the
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than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."</p>
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<p>"You horrify me!"</p>
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<p>"But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion
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can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no
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lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of
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a drunkard’s blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among
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the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever
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so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is
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but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these
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lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part
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with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the
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deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on,
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year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this
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lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I
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should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of
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country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is
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not personally threatened."</p>
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<p>"No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away."</p>
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<p>"Quite so. She has her freedom."</p>
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<p>"What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?"</p>
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<p>"I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would
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cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is
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correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we
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shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of
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the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has
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to tell."</p>
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<p>The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no
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distance from the station, and there we found the young lady
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waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch
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awaited us upon the table.</p>
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<p>"I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It
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is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I
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should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me."</p>
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<p>"Pray tell us what has happened to you."</p>
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<p>"I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr.
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Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into
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town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose."</p>
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<p>"Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long
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thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen.</p>
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<p>"In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole,
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with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is
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only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and
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I am not easy in my mind about them."</p>
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<p>"What can you not understand?"</p>
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<p>"Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just
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as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and
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drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he
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said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself,
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for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all
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stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds
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round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which
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slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about
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a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs
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to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord
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Southerton’s preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in
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front of the hall door has given its name to the place.</p>
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<p>"I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever,
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and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child.
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There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to
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us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is
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not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much
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younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think,
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while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their
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conversation I have gathered that they have been married about
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seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by
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the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr.
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Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them
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was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As
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the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite
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imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her
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father’s young wife.</p>
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<p>"Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as
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in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse.
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She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately
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devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey
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eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every
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little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her
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also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they
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seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow,
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this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the
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saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her
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in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of
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her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so
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utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small
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for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large.
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His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between
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savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving
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pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea
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of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning
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the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would
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rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he
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has little to do with my story."</p>
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<p>"I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they
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seem to you to be relevant or not."</p>
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<p>"I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one
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unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was
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the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a
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man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough,
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uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual
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smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been
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quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it.
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His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as
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silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most
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unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the
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nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one
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corner of the building.</p>
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<p>"For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was
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very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after
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breakfast and whispered something to her husband.</p>
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Oh, yes,</em></span> said he, turning to me, <span class="emphasis"><em>we are very much obliged to
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you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut
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your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest
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iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue
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dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in
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your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should
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both be extremely obliged.</em></span></p>
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<p>"The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade
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of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it
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bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not
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have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr.
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and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which
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seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for
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me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching
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along the entire front of the house, with three long windows
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reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the
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central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was
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asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the
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other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest
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stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how
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comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs.
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Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so
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much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad,
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anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle
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suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the
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day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in
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the nursery.</p>
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<p>"Two days later this same performance was gone through under
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|
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exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I
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sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny
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stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which
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he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and
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moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not
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fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for
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about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then
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suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and
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to change my dress.</p>
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|
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<p>"You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to
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what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly
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be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face
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away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire
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to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be
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impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been
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broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of
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the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst
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of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able
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with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I
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confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that
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|
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|
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was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I
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perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road,
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a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in
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|
+
my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are
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|
+
usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the
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|
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railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I
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lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her
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|
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eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing,
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|
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but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my
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hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once.</p>
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Jephro,</em></span> said she, <span class="emphasis"><em>there is an impertinent fellow upon the
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road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.</em></span></p>
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|
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?</em></span> he asked.</p>
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>No, I know no one in these parts.</em></span></p>
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to
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him to go away.</em></span></p>
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Surely it would be better to take no notice.</em></span></p>
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn
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|
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round and wave him away like that.</em></span></p>
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<p>"I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew
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down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have
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|
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not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor
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|
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seen the man in the road."</p>
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<p>"Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a
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most interesting one."</p>
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<p>"You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may
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prove to be little relation between the different incidents of
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which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper
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Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands
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near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp
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rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving
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about.</p>
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Look in here!</em></span> said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two
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planks. <span class="emphasis"><em>Is he not a beauty?</em></span></p>
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<p>"I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a
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vague figure huddled up in the darkness.</p>
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Don’t be frightened,</em></span> said my employer, laughing at the start
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which I had given. <span class="emphasis"><em>It’s only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine,
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but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do
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anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then,
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+
so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose
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every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs
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upon. For goodness</em></span> sake don’t you ever on any pretext set your
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+
foot over the threshold at night, for it’s as much as your life
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|
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|
+
is worth.'</p>
|
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+
<p>"The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to
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|
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|
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look out of my bedroom window about two o’clock in the morning.
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|
+
It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the
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|
609
|
+
house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was
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|
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standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was
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|
+
aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper
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|
+
beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It
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|
613
|
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was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging
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|
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|
+
jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly
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|
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|
+
across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side.
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|
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|
+
That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not
|
|
617
|
+
think that any burglar could have done.</p>
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+
<p>"And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as
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you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a
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+
great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the
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|
+
child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the
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|
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|
+
furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things.
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|
+
There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones
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|
624
|
+
empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two
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|
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|
+
with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was
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+
naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It
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|
627
|
+
struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight,
|
|
628
|
+
so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very
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|
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+
first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There
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|
630
|
+
was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never
|
|
631
|
+
guess what it was. It was my coil of hair.</p>
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|
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|
+
<p>"I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint,
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|
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|
+
and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing
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|
634
|
+
obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in
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635
|
+
the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the
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|
636
|
+
contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two
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|
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|
+
tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was
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|
638
|
+
it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at
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|
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+
all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer,
|
|
640
|
+
and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that
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|
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|
+
I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had
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|
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|
+
locked.</p>
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<p>"I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes,
|
|
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|
+
and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head.
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|
+
There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited
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|
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|
+
at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of
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|
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|
+
the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked.
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|
+
One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle
|
|
649
|
+
coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on
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|
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|
+
his face which made him a very different person to the round,
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|
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|
+
jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his
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|
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|
+
brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his
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|
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+
temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me
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+
without a word or a look.</p>
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<p>"This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the
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grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I
|
|
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|
+
could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four
|
|
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|
+
of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the
|
|
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|
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fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I
|
|
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|
+
strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle
|
|
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|
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came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever.</p>
|
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|
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<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Ah!</em></span> said he, <span class="emphasis"><em>you must not think me rude if I passed you
|
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|
+
without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with
|
|
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|
+
business matters.</em></span></p>
|
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|
+
<p>"I assured him that I was not offended. <span class="emphasis"><em>By the way,</em></span> said I,
|
|
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|
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<span class="emphasis"><em>you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one
|
|
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|
+
of them has the shutters up.</em></span></p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled
|
|
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|
+
at my remark.</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Photography is one of my hobbies,</em></span> said he. <span class="emphasis"><em>I have made my
|
|
671
|
+
dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we
|
|
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|
+
have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever
|
|
673
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+
believed it?</em></span> He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest
|
|
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|
+
in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and
|
|
675
|
+
annoyance, but no jest.</p>
|
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|
+
<p>"Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there
|
|
677
|
+
was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know,
|
|
678
|
+
I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity,
|
|
679
|
+
though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty—a
|
|
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|
+
feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this
|
|
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+
place. They talk of woman’s instinct; perhaps it was woman’s
|
|
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|
+
instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there,
|
|
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|
+
and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the
|
|
684
|
+
forbidden door.</p>
|
|
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|
+
<p>"It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that,
|
|
686
|
+
besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to
|
|
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|
+
do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large
|
|
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|
+
black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been
|
|
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|
+
drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when
|
|
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|
+
I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at
|
|
691
|
+
all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both
|
|
692
|
+
downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an
|
|
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|
+
admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock,
|
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+
opened the door, and slipped through.</p>
|
|
695
|
+
<p>"There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and
|
|
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+
uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end.
|
|
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|
+
Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third
|
|
698
|
+
of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and
|
|
699
|
+
cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so
|
|
700
|
+
thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through
|
|
701
|
+
them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it
|
|
702
|
+
had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked
|
|
703
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+
at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with
|
|
704
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+
stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was
|
|
705
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+
not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the
|
|
706
|
+
shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from
|
|
707
|
+
beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was
|
|
708
|
+
a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the
|
|
709
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+
passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it
|
|
710
|
+
might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room
|
|
711
|
+
and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little
|
|
712
|
+
slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad,
|
|
713
|
+
unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My
|
|
714
|
+
overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran—ran
|
|
715
|
+
as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the
|
|
716
|
+
skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door,
|
|
717
|
+
and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting
|
|
718
|
+
outside.</p>
|
|
719
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>So,</em></span> said he, smiling, <span class="emphasis"><em>it was you, then. I thought that it
|
|
720
|
+
must be when I saw the door open.</em></span></p>
|
|
721
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Oh, I am so frightened!</em></span> I panted.</p>
|
|
722
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>My dear young lady! my dear young lady!</em></span>--you cannot think how
|
|
723
|
+
caressing and soothing his manner was--<span class="emphasis"><em>and what has frightened
|
|
724
|
+
you, my dear young lady?</em></span></p>
|
|
725
|
+
<p>"But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I
|
|
726
|
+
was keenly on my guard against him.</p>
|
|
727
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,</em></span> I answered.
|
|
728
|
+
<span class="emphasis"><em>But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was
|
|
729
|
+
frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in
|
|
730
|
+
there!</em></span></p>
|
|
731
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Only that?</em></span> said he, looking at me keenly.</p>
|
|
732
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Why, what did you think?</em></span> I asked.</p>
|
|
733
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Why do you think that I lock this door?</em></span></p>
|
|
734
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>I am sure that I do not know.</em></span></p>
|
|
735
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you
|
|
736
|
+
see?</em></span> He was still smiling in the most amiable manner.</p>
|
|
737
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>I am sure if I had known--</em></span></p>
|
|
738
|
+
<p>"<span class="emphasis"><em>Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over
|
|
739
|
+
that threshold again</em></span>--here in an instant the smile hardened into
|
|
740
|
+
a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a
|
|
741
|
+
demon--<span class="emphasis"><em>I’ll throw you to the mastiff.</em></span></p>
|
|
742
|
+
<p>"I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that
|
|
743
|
+
I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing
|
|
744
|
+
until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I
|
|
745
|
+
thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without
|
|
746
|
+
some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the
|
|
747
|
+
woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible
|
|
748
|
+
to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of
|
|
749
|
+
course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was
|
|
750
|
+
almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would
|
|
751
|
+
send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the
|
|
752
|
+
office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then
|
|
753
|
+
returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my
|
|
754
|
+
mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I
|
|
755
|
+
remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of
|
|
756
|
+
insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one
|
|
757
|
+
in the household who had any influence with the savage creature,
|
|
758
|
+
or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and
|
|
759
|
+
lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you.
|
|
760
|
+
I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this
|
|
761
|
+
morning, but I must be back before three o’clock, for Mr. and
|
|
762
|
+
Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the
|
|
763
|
+
evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you
|
|
764
|
+
all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you
|
|
765
|
+
could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should
|
|
766
|
+
do."</p>
|
|
767
|
+
<p>Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story.
|
|
768
|
+
My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in
|
|
769
|
+
his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon
|
|
770
|
+
his face.</p>
|
|
771
|
+
<p>"Is Toller still drunk?" he asked.</p>
|
|
772
|
+
<p>"Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do
|
|
773
|
+
nothing with him."</p>
|
|
774
|
+
<p>"That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?"</p>
|
|
775
|
+
<p>"Yes."</p>
|
|
776
|
+
<p>"Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?"</p>
|
|
777
|
+
<p>"Yes, the wine-cellar."</p>
|
|
778
|
+
<p>"You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very
|
|
779
|
+
brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could
|
|
780
|
+
perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not
|
|
781
|
+
think you a quite exceptional woman."</p>
|
|
782
|
+
<p>"I will try. What is it?"</p>
|
|
783
|
+
<p>"We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o’clock, my friend
|
|
784
|
+
and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will,
|
|
785
|
+
we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might
|
|
786
|
+
give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some
|
|
787
|
+
errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate
|
|
788
|
+
matters immensely."</p>
|
|
789
|
+
<p>"I will do it."</p>
|
|
790
|
+
<p>"Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of
|
|
791
|
+
course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been
|
|
792
|
+
brought there to personate someone, and the real person is
|
|
793
|
+
imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this
|
|
794
|
+
prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice
|
|
795
|
+
Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to
|
|
796
|
+
America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height,
|
|
797
|
+
figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very
|
|
798
|
+
possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of
|
|
799
|
+
course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you
|
|
800
|
+
came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some
|
|
801
|
+
friend of hers—possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore
|
|
802
|
+
the girl’s dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your
|
|
803
|
+
laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture,
|
|
804
|
+
that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer
|
|
805
|
+
desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent
|
|
806
|
+
him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly
|
|
807
|
+
clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of
|
|
808
|
+
the child."</p>
|
|
809
|
+
<p>"What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated.</p>
|
|
810
|
+
<p>"My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining
|
|
811
|
+
light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the
|
|
812
|
+
parents. Don’t you see that the converse is equally valid. I have
|
|
813
|
+
frequently gained my first real insight into the character of
|
|
814
|
+
parents by studying their children. This child’s disposition is
|
|
815
|
+
abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty’s sake, and whether he
|
|
816
|
+
derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or
|
|
817
|
+
from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their
|
|
818
|
+
power."</p>
|
|
819
|
+
<p>"I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A
|
|
820
|
+
thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you
|
|
821
|
+
have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to
|
|
822
|
+
this poor creature."</p>
|
|
823
|
+
<p>"We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning
|
|
824
|
+
man. We can do nothing until seven o’clock. At that hour we shall
|
|
825
|
+
be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the
|
|
826
|
+
mystery."</p>
|
|
827
|
+
<p>We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we
|
|
828
|
+
reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside
|
|
829
|
+
public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining
|
|
830
|
+
like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were
|
|
831
|
+
sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been
|
|
832
|
+
standing smiling on the door-step.</p>
|
|
833
|
+
<p>"Have you managed it?" asked Holmes.</p>
|
|
834
|
+
<p>A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is
|
|
835
|
+
Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring
|
|
836
|
+
on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates
|
|
837
|
+
of Mr. Rucastle’s."</p>
|
|
838
|
+
<p>"You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now
|
|
839
|
+
lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black
|
|
840
|
+
business."</p>
|
|
841
|
+
<p>We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a
|
|
842
|
+
passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss
|
|
843
|
+
Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the
|
|
844
|
+
transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but
|
|
845
|
+
without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence
|
|
846
|
+
Holmes' face clouded over.</p>
|
|
847
|
+
<p>"I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss
|
|
848
|
+
Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put
|
|
849
|
+
your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our
|
|
850
|
+
way in."</p>
|
|
851
|
+
<p>It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united
|
|
852
|
+
strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There
|
|
853
|
+
was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a
|
|
854
|
+
basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner
|
|
855
|
+
gone.</p>
|
|
856
|
+
<p>"There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty
|
|
857
|
+
has guessed Miss Hunter’s intentions and has carried his victim
|
|
858
|
+
off."</p>
|
|
859
|
+
<p>"But how?"</p>
|
|
860
|
+
<p>"Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He
|
|
861
|
+
swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here’s the
|
|
862
|
+
end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did
|
|
863
|
+
it."</p>
|
|
864
|
+
<p>"But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not
|
|
865
|
+
there when the Rucastles went away."</p>
|
|
866
|
+
<p>"He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and
|
|
867
|
+
dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were
|
|
868
|
+
he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it
|
|
869
|
+
would be as well for you to have your pistol ready."</p>
|
|
870
|
+
<p>The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at
|
|
871
|
+
the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy
|
|
872
|
+
stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the
|
|
873
|
+
wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and
|
|
874
|
+
confronted him.</p>
|
|
875
|
+
<p>"You villain!" said he, "where’s your daughter?"</p>
|
|
876
|
+
<p>The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open
|
|
877
|
+
skylight.</p>
|
|
878
|
+
<p>"It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies
|
|
879
|
+
and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I’ll
|
|
880
|
+
serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he
|
|
881
|
+
could go.</p>
|
|
882
|
+
<p>"He’s gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter.</p>
|
|
883
|
+
<p>"I have my revolver," said I.</p>
|
|
884
|
+
<p>"Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed
|
|
885
|
+
down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we
|
|
886
|
+
heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a
|
|
887
|
+
horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An
|
|
888
|
+
elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out
|
|
889
|
+
at a side door.</p>
|
|
890
|
+
<p>"My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It’s not been
|
|
891
|
+
fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it’ll be too late!"</p>
|
|
892
|
+
<p>Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with
|
|
893
|
+
Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its
|
|
894
|
+
black muzzle buried in Rucastle’s throat, while he writhed and
|
|
895
|
+
screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and
|
|
896
|
+
it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great
|
|
897
|
+
creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and
|
|
898
|
+
carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid
|
|
899
|
+
him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered
|
|
900
|
+
Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to
|
|
901
|
+
relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door
|
|
902
|
+
opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room.</p>
|
|
903
|
+
<p>"Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter.</p>
|
|
904
|
+
<p>"Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he
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went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn’t let me know
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what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains
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were wasted."</p>
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<p>"Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs.
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Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else."</p>
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<p>"Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know."</p>
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<p>"Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several
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points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark."</p>
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<p>"I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I’d have done
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so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there’s
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police-court business over this, you’ll remember that I was the
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one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice’s friend
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too.</p>
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<p>"She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn’t, from the time
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that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no
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say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until
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after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend’s house. As well as I could
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learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so
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quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them
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but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle’s hands. He knew he was
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safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming
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forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then
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her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to
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sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use
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her money. When she wouldn’t do it, he kept on worrying her until
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she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death’s door. Then
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she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her
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beautiful hair cut off; but that didn’t make no change in her
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young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be."</p>
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<p>"Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough
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to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce
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all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this
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system of imprisonment?"</p>
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<p>"Yes, sir."</p>
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<p>"And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of
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the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler."</p>
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<p>"That was it, sir."</p>
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<p>"But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should
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be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain
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arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your
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interests were the same as his."</p>
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<p>"Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said
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Mrs. Toller serenely.</p>
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<p>"And in this way he managed that your good man should have no
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want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment
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when your master had gone out."</p>
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<p>"You have it, sir, just as it happened."</p>
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<p>"I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for
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you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And
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here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think,
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Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester,
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as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a
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questionable one."</p>
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<p>And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the
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copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but
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was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of
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his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who
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probably know so much of Rucastle’s past life that he finds it
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difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were
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married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their
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flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in
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the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend
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Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further
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interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one
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of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at
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Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success.</p>
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